The Sun. — London, England, 1864-06-18 00:00:00

'Noma. ..•••1 ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, Covent-garden. There will in next week be five opera nights, viz.. Monday, rismesdav, Thursday, Friday, and t , starday. Mdlle. Adelina Patti, Madame Didiee ; M. Faure, Signor Graziani, and Signor Ma THIS EVENING (Saturday), June 18, will be performed Gounod's Opera, FAUST E MARGHERITA. Mar_herita, Mahe. Adelina Patti, being her third appearance in that character in England; Siebe , Madame Didiee; Marta, Mdlle. Anese ; Mefisto'e e, M. Faure ; Vale tino, Signor Gn.ziani; Wagner, biguor Tagliafics; and Faust, Signor Mario. Conductor, Mr. Costa. Commence at half past Eight. Pit tickets, 7s. ; amphitheatre ,4ta Is, 10s. 6d., 75., and ss. ; amphitheatre."2s. 6d. Boxes, stalls, and tickets may be had at the box-office under the portico of the theatre, which is open from ten to live, and at the principal musicsellers' and librarians'. /THEATRE ROYAL HA YNTARKET.— oie Lessee and Manager, Mr, Buckstone. THIS EVENING, THE BALANCE OF COMFORT. Mr. Howe and Miss L. Angel. After which, DAVID GARRICK. Messrs. Sothern, Chippendale, Buckstone, Rogers, Clark, Weathersby, Sze. ; Mesthmes Snowden, Nelly Moore, Fitzwilliam. Followed by (for the 6th time) LORD DUNDREARY MARRIED AND DONE fOR. To conclude with AN UNLUCKY MORTAL. Mr. Wm. Farren and Miss M. Harris. Commence at 7. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Sole Management of Mr. Fechter. Last 7 Nights of Hamlet and the present Season. Mr. FECHThR will perform HA3ILEr THIS EVENING (Saturday). Claudius, Mr. Emery; Polonius, Mr. John Brougham; Ghost, Mr. G. .Jordan; Laertes, Mr. C. Vanden heft ; Horatio, Mr. J. G. Shore ; First Gravedigger, Mr. H. Widdicomb ; Osric, Mr. F. Charles ; Messrs. W M'lntyre , F. Morton. Raymond, Moreland, Clifford, Edmonds, Wall bank, Collett ; Ophelia, Miss Kate Terry ; Actress, Miss M Renrade ; and Gertruie, Miss Elaworthy. The Scenery painted by Mr. W. Telbin. Notice.—The doors open at half-past 7, and Hamlet com tences at 8. -- Box Office open daily from Eleven o'clock till Five. R OYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE.— Sole Lesee and Manager, Mr. Geo. Vining. THIS EVENING- will be performed a new and original Drama, by R. Slous, Esq., entitled LIGHT AND SHADOW. Mr. D. Murray, D. Fisher, J. W. Ray, J. Nel son, stc.; miss Stafford and ..)ss Caroline Carson. Atter which, THE CORS I C AN BROTHERS. Louis and Fabien dei Franchi , M r. Vining ; Chate au R enaud, Mr. Walter Lacy. E w THE A fRE-E0 YAL, ADELPII.I.- 3ole Proprietor and Manager. M. B. Webster. THIS EVENING, THE DEAD HEART: Robert Landry (his ori g inal character), Mr. B en j am i n We b ster, , uppo ted by Messrs. A. :•tirling, J. L. Toole, T. Stuart, eaul Bedford, Blllington ; Miss Woolgar (Mrs. Alfred Mellon), Miss Kelly, ac. _ _ To conclude with TifE AREA BELLE : nessrs. J. L. Toole, P. Bedford, tt. Romer, Miss Woolor, and Mrs. H. Lewis. Commence at 7. R OYAL ST. JAMES'S THEATRE. under the Management of Mr. B. WEBSTER. Crowded with rank and fashion.— The highly successful new Comedy, by Diun Boucicault ,Esq., every Evening. Rs -engagement of those ceebracedand popular artistes, Mr. an Mrs. Charles Mathews. Amongst the artists engaged will be found the popular names of Mr. Benjamin Webster, Mr. Charle , Mathews. Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. L. Toole, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. PAul Bedford, Mr. F. itobinson, Mr. Ashley ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Miss H rbert, Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss H. z:-.lmms, Miss A. Cottrell, Miss Fanny Josephs, Miss Patti Josephs, Miss Wentworth, and Mrs. Stirdng. EVERY EVENING, at 7, A DAY AFTER THE WEDDING. Miss Herbert. At a quarter before 8, an entirely new and original Comedy, In 5 acts, by Dion Boucicault, entitled THE FOX CHACE. Characters by Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Frank Matthews, Mr. J. Clarke, Mr. F. Robinson, Mr. Ash ey, Mr. W. Cham ,er laine ; Mrs. Chas. Mathews, Mrs. Frank Matthews, and Miss Henrietta:Simms. At 10, by pardoular desire, COOL AS A CUCUMBER. Mr. Charles Mathews. To conclude with SHAKE HANDS : Mr. J. Clarke ; Miss Fanny Josephs. Commence at 7. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. Manager, Mr. W. H. Swanborough. THIS EVENING, DEAF AS A POST. Mr. Thorne. Followed by THE MAID OF' HONOUR. Miss Ada Ewanborough. After which, MAZOURKA. Messrs. Honey, James, Fenton, Turner, &c. ; Misses Marie Wilton, Simpson, &c. To conclude with TIMOTHY TO THE RESCUE. Mr. T. Thorut. Commence at 7. THE ASCOT.—RACE GLASSES (the best) at CALLAGHAN'S, 23A, New Bond-street, W., corner of Conduit-street. N.B.—Sole agent to Voigtlander, Vienna. T.]MOSES AND SON • respectfully call attention to their large and well assorted stock of JUVENILE CLOTHING. 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A brief bat soul-stirring Epeech in the Peers from the lips of the greatest 1 of Parliamentary o:atcr living, the DERBY ! A huge division in the Commcns—balanced to such a nicety that the result amounted to all bat a defeat of the Government! The Eirl of DERBY'S speech last evening in the House of Lords will—or we ere very mach mistaken —awake an echo in th 3 hearts of E sglishmen of all pzrties and of all sections of pArt:es indiscriminately. And this because the noble earl, leader of the Conservative Opposition though he is, spoke not in the least as a party man, not in the least es a party leader, but purely, simply, solely from his brave, large heart, from his o e,r, bright intellect, in manliest words of piercing and burning eloquence, as an Englishman, au an English statesman ! After this long silence to which all through this session (until now) the Lords and Commons have alike con strained themselves—the utterance of even these few syllables by Lord DERBY comes to us, one and all, as an inexpressible relief. Uttered at length, as the plain truth has now been, and uttered thus for us all at last trumpet-tongued—it seems as if we could, with some sense of comfort, at length breathe again. For, these words of Lord DERBY'S, are they not expression of the thoughts that have been burning in our hearts almost uninterruptedly ever since the meeting ofParliament ? And now, at length, not only are they uttered, but they are uttered es the Earl of DERBY alone could so have uttered them. What was the view taken by the noble Earl, even we may go so far as to say expressly and pointedly in his capacity as Leader of the Opposi tion—What even expressly, in that capacity, was the view taken by Lord DERBY of the claim hitherto belonging to the Government, the distinct and positive claim of Ministers to the discretionary silence of the Lords and Commons, to the patient postponement of debate by the Oppo sition ? It was no less generous, frank, and manly than the following :--" I conceive," said the noble Earl last evening, " that the principle is, that while matters are in progress—while the Govern ment are engaged in negotiations, it is not the duty of Parliament to interfere, with iwper feet information, by advice or vote." Nay, yet further, he remarked, "I am of opinion that her MAJESTY'S Government must be left in all matters of this kind with the exclusive responsibility for the course and issue of that negotiation ; and I hope I may take this opportunity of stating, with earnest i anxiety, that if I have refrained during the whole of the session, as I have refrained, from expressing any opinion or putting any question, from raising any partial discussion—a course which I think is greatly to be deprecated—that abstinenee on my part has not been, nor must it be supposed to pro ceed, from indifference, or still less from approval of the course pursued by the Government." Plain words! But, plainer still were those that followed:— "Whatever temptations I may have felt toenter upon a partial discussion of the state of Europe, and more especially of that connected with the Danish ques tion, which keeps this country in a state of feverish anxiety from day to day, I have laid down for my self a rule from wlaich I have not shrunk and will not shrink —namely, that while matters are in the present state I will not afford the slightest excuse for any man to say that by ar ything I Lave said or done I have in the slightest degree embarrassed or impeded the action of the Government." Pretty nearly what we ourselves had remarked in other words, as recently as the evening before last, in regard to the course pursued by the Conservative Opposition. "I will leave to them"—said Lord DERBY, that is, to the Government—" as I apprehend it is the constitutional duty of Parlia ment to do—the whole and undivided responsie bility of the course which they have pursued. and the condition to which they have brought the hon our of the country. But "—mark this !—" at the same time I will say it appears to me that the time must be approaching when, this transition state must be brought to a close. It cannot be long--a few days must decide whether the Conference will succeed in promoting peace, and above all an hon ourable peace, for this country, FOR DEARLY AS I LOVE PEACE I LOVE HONOUR MORE." It was not simply that "cheering" followed these words— the effect produced by them was that of profound sensation. Heart-moving in themselves, they were delivered by the Earl of DERBY in his very weightiest—with an emphasis of the most impres sive description. Yes !—peace if you will, peace if you can, peace if in any way possible. But—beyond all things—Honour ! The feeble echo of these sen timents by Earl RUSSELL, in half-a-dczsn words, later on in the evening, will be of no avail, we take it, towards mhigating in the slightest imaginable degree the general estimate of the latter's policy in regard to Denmark. That policy has notoriously from first to last, all through these miserable negotiations, had no reference whatever to the supreme responsibility de volving upon the Foreign Secretary at such crises the supreme responsibility, that is, of holding sacred, at all hazards, the chastity of • the national honour ! It is sufficiently startling and certainly very suggestive, the contrast thrust upon the national consideration by, on the one hand, the haughty and patriotic sentiments uttered last evening by Lord DERBY, and on the other, this wavering, fluctuating, chameleon policy of Earl RUSSELL'S, a policy of concession, of hesitation, of weakness, apparently of timidity, certainly of compromise. It ' ;d is saie, on the high authority of the unknown philosopher, to whom we owe our proverbs, that " no news is good news," and there is undoubtedly a good deal of truth in that sententious statement. 111 news travels fast and generally lcses nothing in the journey, so that, if we do not hear of any parti cular news from a distant quarter, we may conclude that there is at least no great catastrophe to tell. No one would forget to mention a conflagration or an earthquake, and it would be quite impossible to cverlook sn invasion or a mutiny, so that if dullness be the chief complaint we may reasonably congratu late ourselves and the grumblers on having no worse evil to contend against. On these grounds it is satisfactory to find so dull a budget of intelligence co ming to us from India. It speaks well for the prospects of trade, for the progress of improvement, for the Pacification of the frontier and the content of the native Populati on . A t h ermometer at 105 degrees Fahrenheit in the shade is certainly not Physical activity ; but never conducive to mental or grounds for uneasiness or probably have heard of Notwithstanding all dissatisfaction th ele ss had we there should e'a has edtohnee and is them,th a t in India, there is still enough accumulation of neglected work to not surprised t o occupy all the seasons, and we are fins the Vi cero y di r ecting his attenti on to a work, of all othe rs , th e mo st needed in th e h ot season. Sir JOHN L AWRENCE h as been occupying himself, in his journey up to the hills, with the condition of the Ganges canal. He has been holding consuit a _ tions with the principal engineers engaged in it , and it has been decided not to turn the water off until after the rains—a decision which has given general satisfaction, and certainly appears to be the wisest during the summer months. The difficulty was the fear of the masonry being undermined by the rapidity of the current, but this can be avoided by the construction of new locks—a course which will put some obstacles in the way of navigation, but irrigation is the first necessity in a famine parched land like India. It is quite consistent with Sir JOHN LAWRENCE'S character that he should at once apply himself to the supervision of this matter. It is a painful reflection that thousands of lives have and bee scarcity in to the farnire produc e d by d roug h t parts of India since our rule, which might have been saved had we earlier applied our resources to the improvement of the means of CM" munication and the extension of water-works. The surprising results of the works at the delta of the Gedavery mnre than confirmed the meat sanguine expectations, but the flame fatal spirit of routine an d indifference Which has 89 long clogged the path of Indian progress has retarded their comple• tion. It should be one of the first objects with all Indian officials at home and abroad to supply all parts of India with water, end the magnificent rivers which flow through our dominions ought to render such a task by no means formidable to English en terprise and engineering skill. We need not wonder at the apparent strangeness of the delay, since the City of Palaces itself has never been able to boast a gocd supply of water, so that the very officials whose supineness is complained of must have shared the inconvenience. India is a country where abuses flourish in respectable antiquity, and if oppression has not "grown sacred i❑ its venerable wrong," as the poet telle us of ante-revolutionary France, other evils scarcely less formidable have done so. Now, however, a more energetic spirit is infused into the dolce far niente existence dear to Anglo Indians. The new Viceroy is no friend to wrongs, however venerable, and has no mercy for idlers, however much tempted. He has kept steadily at his post, and has kept other people at theirs, doing so much work himself that no subor dinate could complain of increased labour. So as complaints must be made,it has been discovered that the now Governor-General is parsimonious —a very safe fault for a Governor-General in a country like India! Another serious crime is his dislike of un necessary pomp and state, and great was the amaze ment felt and expressed when the Viceroy rode into Simla on horseback without any gorgeous retinue, like any private gentleman. Sir JOHN LAWRENCE is too well versed in native ways to carry this simplicity too far, and when necessary we do not doubt he will assume whatever increase of dignity extraneous aids van give him, bat for ordinary occasions this total absence of pretensions is not without its moral. The native chiefs must learn that our supremacy depends on something more than jewelled robes or courtly retinues; they must under stand that we do not depend on such adjuncts for power,or dignity,or position. ButAnglo•lndians have probably Pomething also to learn, and it will be well if the Governor succeeds in introducing a more English tone into the life of his countrymen, i❑ making them look on India as a field for the dis play of those qualities which have made our coun try great, and our colonies fortunate, not a mere " Tom Tiddler's Ground" to pick up money, nor a stage to play the part of kiag or chieftain, but the sphere for an Englishman's working energies. To live at Rome as the Romans do may be very good advice when given to a traveller passing a few idle months in the country, bat if the traveller were ►egislating for Rome, and was to follow his profes• sion there, he might naturally be supposed to in. fluence its mode of living instead of being Mu.. enced by it. .In matters of diet and other questions of prudence it would be sometimes well to follow the native example a little more closely, but pow and extravagance, however dear to the hangers-on of native princes, are not consonant with the cha racterietics of an active and intelligent English man. It is matter for congratulation that Sir JOHN LAWRENCE has passed through his first months at Calcutta unscathed, and has now reached Simla, after a journey in which he was everywhere received with the greatest cordiality. In some places the villages were illuminated in his honour, As yet he has happily fulfilled all the auguries of his being the "right man in the right place," and we may hope, under his supervision, to see some o he long arrears of much needed public reforms and improvements cleared up. But how many more sacrifices does Sir CHARLES WOOD require to satisfy the Moloch of routine before he will con sent to the removal of the seat of Government to some less perilous Eituation ? It was in the middle of last season that the busy world of fashion was frightened from its propriety by learning of the sudden death of one of the slaves of the needle. Many thousands perish in conse quence of the fearful pressure that is put upon them in order to accomplish a given amount of work in as brief a space as possible; but the fact of this victim dying in harness, as it were, natu rally struck conviction to the startled mind, and made the thoughtless hear it. The worst of all this undue excitement is, that people are too prone to let the whole affair become a nine days' wonder, and thus go on as bad as before. At all events, the subject has not been allowed to drop, for Lord CARNARVON has called attention to it in the House of Lords. The Government bad promised that a Commission should inquire into the state of work rcoms, more especially with a view to their venti lation. Lord CARNARVON very properly complained that nothing had been seen of the result of these labours, though more than a year had elapsed since the distressing incident had called public attention to the topic. His Lordship also alluded to the suf ferings which were experienced by tailors, and hoped that some sanitary regulations might be en forced with regard to them. It was very neces sary that before the close of the session something should be known about the matter. It is satisfac tory that Lord GRANVILLE was able to state that this very desirable request would be acceded to ; but, at the same time, there seems great reason in what Lord SHAFTESBURY remarked relative to the time that had elapsed before the report was furnished. He said that it was to be regretted that the Com missioners had withheld the report upon the mili ners and dressmakers in order to get further infor mation upon the needlewomen and slopwomen of the East of London. That informa' ion was doubt less requisite in its way, but considering the extent and magnitude of the evils that exist in the West end, uo one can fail to concur with the noble lord in the expression of his regret that the report had not been presented at the beginning of the session, as it might have been, and then "Parliament might have legislated to meet a great and crying evil —an evil which was to be remedied by sanitary rather than by other regulations." There is always some.• thing of this sort to deplore and deprecate, when any particular case of suffering calls for class legis lation and extensive interference. So much is sud denly discovered that it is absolutely necessary to find out, so many inquiries must be made, that the time consumed is something dreadful to contem plate, when it is remembered that health is at stake, and that life and death tremble in the balance while they adjudicate the difficulti es an d a dj ust the differ ence of th e quest i on. I t i s sad to reflect that during this gay season the ruin of Constitutions is being effected, that the close rooms and constant employ ment at unhealthy avocations are sapping the strength, and wearing out in youth the energies i n happie r c i rcumstances, and with thta preserving care, might have flourished un impaired until a green old age. There could have been no actual necessity for delaying all this time, and allowing the months of this s v e e s r s , ion to pass by without improving them. However, "Better lat e than never"is a wise ada ge o f o time-honoured reputation, and let us hope that next year will see a total change in the management of the work-room generally, and that all private and par give way to th e pri naticaurylarancldaiimmsp o w r l a l n b t e q m u easdt par tide o to n of health. We have he opinion of EO excellent an authority as Lord SHATTESBURY to vouch for the zeal and ability that nave been displayed by the Commission in the pur- suit of their arduous task, and therefore there is THE SUN, LONDON, SAIVRDAY EVENING, JUNE 18, 1864. sideration will be thought of when the claims of justice and the voice of charity may plead in vain. " The tender for another's pain, the unfeeling for his own," is often verified with too much exactitude. every inducement to enforce th e subject The re exists, o f t h h e t n e e n e , dlevvomen of London upon the attention of the Legislature, and the time has surely come.when the question will meet with due regard. The rigta-minded must reflect that they did incur a very fearful responsibility if they any longer neglect the call of suffiring humanity, which from many a crowded room and many a bed of sickness exhorts them to lend their aid and provide a remedy. Her Majesty's Theatre. SIGNOR A.RDITUS CONCERT. This popular composer gave a grand morning concert yesterday at her Majesty's Theatre, and, as might have been expected, the house was crowded with a brilliant and fashionable audience. The programme was long and sufficiently varied to en chain the attention despite its length. It opened with a selection from Rossini's exauisite " Stabat Mater," in which Madame Lemmens-Sberrington, Mdlle. Titiens, with Signori Gardoni and Giuglini took cart, Then followed Beethoven's magnificent overture "Leonora," and a selection from "Robert le Diable," and some miscellaneous music, in which the concert giver's compositions naturally occupied a prominent place. Signor Giuglini his long since made the charming Romarza " Colli Nativi" popu lar, and it lost none of its wonted effect when be sang it yesterday. A duet, "Il desio," also one of Signor Arditi's compositions, was sung for the first time by Madame Sherrington and Mdlle. Trebelli. Mdlle. Titiens, who was in excellent voice, sang " L'Ardita" with so much success that a shower of bouquets accompanied the applause. The concert was rich in instrumentalists, for Madame Ara bella Goddard played Mendelssohn's concerto in G minor with her usual taste, and took part in a duet for violin and pianoforte with Mr Carrodus, which was of a very high order, and the more effective from not being too long. Miss Georgi and Miss Constance Georgi obtained the only encore in a duet from Auber's charming opera "Les Diamons de la Couronne," and the compliment was certainly well deserved. A selec tion from "Do❑ Giovanni" was well sung by some of the junior performers, and the last feature in the long programme was a selection from Nicolai's opera of "Falstaff," which varied the performance by the introduction of an incidental ballet. We must n)t omit to mention "La Garibaldina," composed by Signor Arditi for the reception of the Italian patriot at the Crystal Palace, but it was scarcely so suitable for an operatic performance. There was one especially gratifying feature in the concert which all real concert lovers must have appreciated. There was not a single disappoint ment in the long list of eminent singers, and con sequently the audience was spared the annoyance so common on these grand occasions. There was certainly no lack of performers nor tameness in the performances, and altogether the concert was an unqualified success. Signor Arditi did not fall into the error of some concert givers, and only summon to his aid foreign artistes, for native talent was strongly represented. Besides Madame Sherring ton and Madame Goddard, there was Mr. Santley, who gave Arditi's " Stirrup Cup" with great spirit and success. The concert was not over until a late hour in the afternoon, when the audience dispersed apparently well satisfied with the entertainment, for, thanks to the variety of the programme, it was less tedious than such lengthened concerts often are, and must certainly be ranked among the musical successes of tt e season. SIR ROWLAND HILL'S PRECURSORS I.—Ralph Allen of Bath (the " Atlworthy of Tom Jones) the r friend of Pope, Fielding, Arb u th no t, & c., an d th e original owner of Prior Park, and John Palmer (the apostle of the great mail-coach era), were the principal pioneers of Sir Rowland Hill during the last century. It is scarcely credi ble how limited the communication was between towns of even the largest size and importance before the establish ment of the mail-coach system. The Treasury Minute for its commencement was dated in July, 1784. At that time a single letter-carrier sufficed for Liverpeol. The London letter-bag had born known to arrive in Edinburgh scarcely forty years before (1745) with but one letter, addressed to the British Linen Company. And about the same time the Edinburgh mail is said to have arrived in London con taining but one letter, addressed to Sir William Pulteney, the banker. The coach began at six miles in, an hour, but the official rate of speed was by-and-by advanced to eight, nine, end at last ten miles. When the last advance was made, the most dismal forebodings were entertained among the gloomier portion of the public as to the results of thus tempting Providence. Lord Chancellor Campbell relates that he was frequently warned against travelling in Palmer's mail coaches, on account o f th e fearful rate at which they flew, and instances were a ll ege d of person s having died of apoplexy f r om the rapidi ty o f th e motion. However, the stimulus which the new coaches imparted to the service exceeded Palmer's most sanguine expectations. Three hun dred and eighty towns, which had before had but three deliveries of letters in the week, now received one daily. The Edinburgh coach required less time by sixty hours to travel from London, and there was a corresponding reduc. tion between towns at shorter distances. In the year 1784 the net revenue of the Post. office was about £250,000. By 1814, the proceeds had increased sixfold, reaching the sum of a million and a half sterling. As a fitting supplement to the foregoing, we may add the following :—There is now a total of 14,776 public receptacles for letters in the United Kingdom, which is more by ten thousand then the total number before the establishment of penny postage in 1840. The gross Lumber of letters passing through the Post-office during 1863 was 642 millions, making no less than 22 to each person in the United Kingdom. As contrasted with the last year of dear postage, the number of letters show en eightfold in crease. The distance over which the malls travel with this enormous amount of correspondence, in the United Kingdom alone, is nearly 160,000 miles per day. Of the mails conveyed by railway a distance of 50,000 miles is ac complished every working day-72,000 miles per diem are travereed en foot—and the rest are carried by mail coaches, mail carts, and steamboats. Of the enormous gross revenue for 1863, which was stated before as £3,800,000, England contributed upwards of three millians ; and it should be added that this sum is exclusive of £130,000 arising from newspaper stamps, the charges for which are collected by the Couroissionerts of inland levenue. good ground for expecting that the subject has been grappled with in a competent manner, and that there will dawn at last a ray of hope on the dark ened toil of that much-efllcted race, the needle women and apprentice. It is a disgrece to all civil isation, a blot on our refinement, and a scandal on our benevolence that for so long a period these "crying evils," as Lord SHAFTESBURY has aptly de nominated them, should have been rebuked to exist without a remedy. The indifference which has been so strikingly manifested was repulsed in stirring words by a master mind. It is many years since HOOD addressed this impressive language to the hosts of unthinking individuals who cared only for the work and thought nothing of the worker— "lt is not linen you're wearing out, But human ere oures' lives." This outburst of genuine feeling was warmly applauded at the time, but what Eff e , . did it produce. How many toil-worn, ground down fellow-mortals have since passed to GOD'S judgment seat to bear witness to the cruelty and cold-heartedness of their brethren on the earth. It is a distressing picture to dwell upon, and there fore people adopt the easiest plan, they put it aside; but those who suffer their names to figure as the patrons of charitable institutions, and do their best or rather their worst to propagate the ills of the sempstress or the tailor are deceivers in the truest sense of the term, Now that the ques tion has been again mooted, it is to be trusted that attention will be drawn to it, and that some remedial measures will be devised. Lord SHAFTES BURY gave a practical hint, when he remarked that if the " Legislature had wisdom enough to pass good sanitary laws, and compel their adoption by a system of inspectorship, the burden upon the taxes of this country would be reduced by at least one-third in the course of the next five years." This is perfecctly true, and perhaps this aspect of the question may attract the attention of those who otherwise would have let it alone. The fiscal con LATEST INTELLIGENCE. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] AMERICA REPULSE OF GRANT WITH GREAT LOSS. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] (Per the Asia via Crookhaven.) NE W YORK, JUNE 9 (Evening). On Friday General Grant attempted to force a passage over the Chickahominy, and was repulsed with the loss of 6,000 men. General Grant is reported to have abandoned the attempt to force Lee's Chickahominy line, and to be making a fresh combination for the capture of Richmond. The Now York World asserts that Grant has commenced digging towards Lee's works. General Hunter has defeated the Confederates under Jones near Staunton, Western Virginia. Jones was killed. Hunter has occupied Staunton, and the Confederates have retreated to Way nesboro. General Sherman has occupied Ackworth. 1 The Baltimore Convention has unanimously nominated Mr. Lincol❑ for President, and Andrew Johnson for the Vice-President. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (Per the Asia via Halifax and Crookhaven.) NEW YORK, JUNE 9 (Evening.) Gold very ranch excited. Closing quotation to day-98i. Exchange on London, 217; on Paris, 2.60. Stocks quiet. New York Centrals, 132,1 ; Illinois, 132; Erie, 112 k; 5.20 Bonds, 1051. DENMARK. COPENHAGEN, JUNE 17, 11.32 a,m. Ridrelandet of to-day believes itself able to state that Denmark consented to the prolongation of the armistice for another fortnight solely upon the express condition that England maintain her proposal for the division of Schleswig; and, should it be rejected by the Germans, not to make as hitherto any fresh proposal on the subject of the division. PRUSSIA, AUSTRIA, AND THE CON• FEREiiCE, VIENNA, JUNE 18. The Presse of to-day says :—" Prussia and Ans• tria have agreed to consent either to the prolonga tion of the suspension of hostilities or to the conclu sion of a definitive armistice only upon the follow ing terms :.—Denmark to consent to the cession of that portion of North Schleswig bounded by the Flensburg Sonder line, or at least to enter into negotiations bleed upon that line of demarcation." FRANCE. BOURSE, Jane 17.—The market continues heavy, and the limited amount of business done in Rents has been at slight decline. Threes, for the Account, are now at 66fr. 10c. Mobilier has also receded, the present quotations being 1,067 f. 50c. In Rail.. way Shares little doing, and the variation in prices not material. The market became rather firmer towards the close, and left off as follows : 41 per Cente .. 93 50 Do. end month.... 3 per Cents Do. end month 66 15 Credit Mobilier 1082 5 0 Do. end month 1082 50 Bank Shares 3390 Credit koneier 1240 Roman MAIL V Italian Loan 69 90 Do. end month 69 90 Ditto Threes .. 42 75 Now Mexican .... 56 75 Russian Austrian Spanish Threes 6l 25 Houle Debt Deferred fATN. Cash. Account. Orleans O ,•••: •• • Northern Lyons and Medlicrranear Newditto .. Southern 651 25 .. 651 25 Western Eastern Sardinian .. Austrian Lombard ... 627 50 .. 528 75 North of Spain Saragost:a 565 673 75 Ditto to Barcelona 262 50 .. 257 CO 872 50 ~ 873 75 991 25 .. 992 50 870 - 875 - MR. JUSTICE SHEE, according to the Law Times of this day, presides at the annual dinner of the "Law ,;lerks' Society." The claims of this association to the respect and regards of the profession are very great. It is a noble endeavour of our most trusted and trustworthy ser vants to make provision for themselves and their families in the days of sickness and old age, and when death hcis de prived the wife and the child of their natural protector. It is unnecessary to enlarge upon the merits of the Law Clerks —they are known by experience to all of our readers. Those of them who cannot be present in peracn may express their approval by sending a subscription. SOCIETY OF ARTS' CONVERsAiIONE. — A very large gathering of the members of this b ociety and their friends, amongst whom the proportion of 1aa. 498 was very considerable, took phice at the South Konsing..'2ll Museum on Thursday evening. The company was re ceived by the chairman of the council, Mr William Hawes, The bands of the Coldstream Guards and the Royal Artillery played during the evening, and Madlle Adrienne Preschel performed upon the pianoforte in the room known as the National Gallery. LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEEK.—Monday—Asiatic, at 3. Tues day—Horticultural, at 3, Conifers,' Mr Murray—Statis tical, at 8, Statistics of Aberdeen,' Col. Sykes---.' Crime in Russia,' Mr Michell—Ethnological, at 8, • Prehistoric Cave-. dwellers of Southern France,' Mr. Christy—' Supposed Infecundity of Human Hybrids or Crosses,' Mr Crawford. Wednesday—Society of Literature, at 4 1 — Geological, at 8, Fossoliferous Rocks, Forfarshire,' Mr Powrie— Reptiliferous Rocks and Footprint-bearing Strata, N.E. Scotland,' Professor Harkness—' Bone and Cave Deposits of Reindeer Period, South of France,' Mr Evans—'Silu- Han Rocks and Granite of the Donetz,' Professor Helmer sen—' Supposed Deposit of Boulder Clay, North Devon,' Mr Maw—' Former Existence of Glaciers in South of Scot land,' Mr Young—' Formation and Preservation of Lakes by Ice-action,' Mr Belt—' Geology of Hobart, Tasmania,' Mr Winkle. —Atisenceunt. ALEXANDRA PARK,—This place of recreation practically opens for the season on the 22d inst., ' with a flower show, at which prizes to the amount of £7OO will be given by the company. The bands of the Grenadiers and 2nd Life Guards will be in attendance, and frequent trains will run from Farringdon-street and King's-cross to Wood-green station, but a hundred yards from the flower show. Arrangements are being made for holding a great fair in the month of July, and the Chalets a Boutiques are now being put up close to the site of the flower show. The cricket ground is nearly complete, and the two cricket pa vilions are finished. The National Archery Association of England will hold their meeting on the 6th, 7th, and Bth of July, when prizes to the amount of £5OO will be shot for. There will be a monster gathering of Foresters on the 11th July, and a grand review of the cadets of the metropolis in the same month. CLOSING OF THE LONDON THEATRES,—The pre abet summer will be noticeable for a more general closing of the West -end theatres than has taken place for' many seasons past. The Princess's, Olympic, Adelphi, and St. James's will next month be the only principal theatres open. The Lyceum closes on Saturday next ; the Strand Theatre will on the same night terminate its season in order to allow certain advantageous alterations to be made in the theatre ; the last night of Astley'a is Monday next, when Mr. E. T. Smith takes his benerit ; and the Haymarket will close its doors till September on Wednes day, July 6th, when Mr. Buckstone makes his annuul appeal to the grateful recollections of his old admirers.— Era. A CURIOUS METHOD OF REDUCING THE INTENSE T, n.EADACE/E experienced by fever patients has been lately pointed out by M. Guyon. It consists simply in pressure exerted over the integument covering the temporal arteries. It was discovered quite accidentally in feeling the temples, rather than the wrist, in order to ascertain the frequency of the pulse. Whilst the physician com pressed the vessel, the patient exclaimed, " Comme•vous me sonlagez," and thus indicated the result produced by diminishing the supply of blood to the surface of the cranium, M. Guyon does not consider that any serious results of an injurious nature follow compression of the "tempera's," inasmuch ss the blood finds channels 113 the various other branches of the " external carotids." WHERE'S THE JEST ?-11eCharivari publishes a woodcut representing the stage of a theatre, on which three jockeys appear in energetic attitudes, singing— " Jamais, jamais en France L'Anglats no gegnera 1" Below is publish e d a notice that the opera of "Charles VI." is to be speedily reproduced, with new costumes and other appropriate adjuncts, PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION, HOUSE OF COMMON, JUNE 17. THE ASHANTEE W.Aft: Order for committee of supply read, Motion made ;L id question proposed, "That Mr. Speaker do now leave the chair." Amendment proposed, to leave out from the word " That" to the end of the question, in order to add the words "her Majesty's Government, in landing forces on the Gold Ccast for the purpose of waging war against the King of Ashantee, withont making any sufficient provision for preserving the health of the troops to be employed there, have incur red a grave responsibility, and that this house laments the want of foresight which has caused co large a loss of life," instead thereof. Ques tion put, "That the words proposed to be left out stand part of the question." The house divided—Ayes, 233; Noes, 226. AYES —233. Acton, Sir J. Ewart, W. O'Brien, Sir P. Adam,W. P. Ewart, J. C. Ogilvy, Sir J. Adeane, 11. J. Ewing, 11. E. C. O'H agan, T. Agar-Ellis, L. G. Feuwi e k, E. M. O'LN - filen, Sir C. Agnew, Sir A. Fenwick, H. Onslow, G. Andover, Lord Fermoy, Lord Osborne R. B. Angerstein, W. Finlay, A. S. Owen, Sir 11. Anson, Major Foley, H. W. Pace, Col. Anstruther, Sir R. Forster, C. Padmore, R. Autrobus, E. Forster, W. E. Paget, C. Athlumney, Lord Foster, W. 0. Paget, Lord A. Aytoun. it. S. Fortescue, F. D. Paget, Lord C. Bagwell, J. Fortescue, C. S, Palmer, Sir R. Baines, E. Gavin, Major Palmerston, Visct. Baring, IL B. Gibson, T. M. Paxton, Sir J. Baring, Sir F. Gilpin, C. Peel, Sir R. Baring, T. G. Gladstone, W. E. Peel, F. Baxter, W. E. Glyn, G. G. render, J. Bazley, T. Goldsmid, Sir P. Peto, Sir M. Beaumont, W. B. Goschen, G. J. Pilki ng t on , J. Beaumont, S. Gower; F. L. Pinney, Col. Bellew, R. 31. Gowet, G. W. L. Pollard Urquhart W Berkeley, H. F. Greenwood, J. Ponsonby, A. Berkeley, Col. Gregory, W. 11. Portman, W. H. B. Biddulph, col. Gregson, S. Potter, E. Black, A. Grey, Sir G. Powell, J. J. 13Iencowe, J. G. Gordon, B. Pryse, E. L. Bonham-Carter, J. Gurney, S. Pritchard, J. Bouverie, E. P. Hadfield, G. Proby, Lord Brady, Dr Hanbury, R. Pugh, D. Browne, Lord J. T. Monkey, T. Ricardo, 0. Bruce, H. A. Hanmer, sir J. Robartes, T. J. A. Buckley, Gen. Hardcastic, J. A. Robertson, D. BulkeleY, Sir R. Hartington,Marquis Roebuck, J. A. Buller, J. W. Hervey, Lord A. Russell, A. Buller, Sir A. W. Hayter, sir W. Russell, F. W. Bury, Viscount Headlam, T. E. Russell, Sir W. Butler, C. S. 13 eathcoi., G. H. St. Aubyn, J. Butt, I. Henuerson, J. Salomonm,Aidermaii Buxton, C. Henley, Lord Scott, Sit W. Caird, J. Herbert, H. A. Scrope, G. P. Cardwell, E. Hodgkinson, G. Seely, C. Carnegie, C. 11 odgson, K. Seymour, Digby Castlerosse, Vist. Holland, E. Shafto, R. D. Cavendish, Lord G. Howard, C. W. G. Smith, Augustus Childers, H. C. E. Butt, W. Smith, J. A. Cholmeley, Sir M. Ingham, R. Stacpoole, W. Churchill, Lord A. Jervoise, Sir J. Stansfeld, J. Clay, J. Johnstone, Sir J. Steel, J. Clive, G. King, P. J. L. Stuart, Col. Cobbett, J. 31. Kinglake, A. W. Sykes, Col. W. H. Coke, Col. Kinglake, Serj. J. Talbot, C. R. M. Colebrooke, Sir T.E. Kingscote, Col. Thompson, H. S. Collier, sir R. P. Kinnaird, A. F. Thornhill, W. P. Cowper, W. le. Knatclibull-Hugess Tollemache, F. J. Craufurd, E. H. J. Layard, A. H. Tracy, C. R. D. Crawford, R. W. Lanigan, J. Turner, J. A. Crossley, Sir F. Leatham, E. A. Vernon, H. F. Dalglish, it. Lefevre, G. J. S. Villiers, C. P. Davey, rt. Lewis, H. Vivian, H. H. Davie, Sir H. It. F. Locke, J. Vyner, It A. Davie, Col. F. Lysley, W. J. Walter, J. Denman, G. Mackie, J. Warner, E. Dent, J. D. Mainwaring, T. Watkins, Ccl. L. Dering, Sir E. Marjoribanks, D. C. Western, S. Dillwyn, L. L. Marsh, 31. IL Westhead, J. P. B. Douglas, Sir C. Martin, P. W. Whalley, G. H. Doulton, F. Martin, J. Whitbread, S. Duff, 31. E. Matheson, A. White, J. Duff, It. W. Merry, J. White, L. Duke, Sir J. 31ildmay, H. Williams, W. Dundas, F. Miller, W. Winnington, Sir T. Dundas, Sir D. Mills, J. R. Wood, sir C. Dunkellin, Lord Moffatt, G. Woods, IL Dunlop, A. 31. Moncreitf, J. Wyvill, 3L Dutton, R.H. Monsen, W. Ennis, J. Morris, D. Esmonde, J. Neate, C. Evans, T. W. Norris, J. T. TELLERS. Brand, H. Dunbar, Sir W. NOES -226. Adderley, '7. B. Gore, J. R. 0. Northcote, Sir S. H. Annesley, Col. H. Gore, W. R. 0. O'Neill, E. Archdall, Capt.]ll.E. Graham, Lord W. 0' i; eilly, M. W. Astell, J. H. Greaves, E. Puke, C. W. 1 Ayrton, A. S. Greenall, G. Pakenham, Col. Bailey, C. Greene, J. Pakington, Sir J. Baillie, 11. J. Gray, Capt. Palk, sir L. Baring, A. H. Grey deWilton,Lord Palmer, R. W. Barrow, W. IL Griffith, C. D. Papillon, P. 0. Bar ttelot, Col. Grogan, Sir E. Parker, Major W. Bateson, Sir T. Hamilton, Lord C. Peel, Gen. Bathurst, A. A. Hamilton, Major Pennant, Col. Bathurst, Co!. H. Hamilton, Viscount Powell, F. S. Beach, W. W. Hamilton, 1. T. Powys-14 bbe, P. L. Bective, Earl of Hardy, G. Repton, G. W. J. Beecroft, G. S. Hardy, J. Ridley, Sir M. W. Bentinck, G. C. Hartopp, E. B. Rose, W. A. Beresf..rd, D. Bossard, M. Rowley, It. T. Berkeley, C. P. F. Hennessy, J. P. Sclater-Booth, G. Bernard, Col. Ileskeili, Si: T. Scott, Lord H. Blake, J. Heygate, Sir F. Scully, V. Bond, J. W. Hill, if. C. Selwyn, C. J. Bovill, W. Boltord, R. S. Shelley, Sir J. V. Booth, Sir R. G. Holmesdale, Lord Sheridan, H. B. Bramley-Moore, J. Hopwood, J. T. Smith, Abel Bramston, T. W. Ho. s.alf, T. B. Smith, Sir F. Bridges, Sir B. W. Hallam, Lord Smith, M. Bruce, Major C. Howes. E Smyth, Col. Bruce, Sir H. Hunioerstone, P. S. Smollett, P. B. Bruen, H. Hume, W. W. F. Somerset, Col. E. 1 Burghley, Lord liumphery, W. Somes, J. Cairns, Sir H. Hunt, G. W. Stanhope, J. B. Cargill, W. W. Ing - estre, Viscount Stanley, Lord Cartwright, Col. Jervis, Captain Stracey, Sir H. Cave, S. Jolliffe, Sir W. Stronge, Col. Cecil, Lord R. Jolliffe, H. Stuart, Lt.-CoL W. Chapman, J. Jones, D. Sturt, H. G. Clitton, Sir It. Kekewich, S. T. Sturt, Lt.-Col. N. Clive, Capt. G. W. Kelly, Sir F. Surtees, H. E. Cobbold, J. C. Kennard, R. W. Talbot, W. C. Cochrane, A. D. B. Her, D. S. Taylor, Col. Cole, H. Kerrison, Sir E. Thynne, Lord E. Cole, J. L. Knatchbull, W. Thynne, Lord H. Collins, T. Knightley, R. Tollemache, J. Conolly, T. Knox, Major W. S. Torrens, R. Corry, H. L. Laird, J. Trelusis, C. H. R. Cubitt, G. Lawson, W. Treherne, M. Curzon, Viscount Leader, N. P. Trelawny, Sir J. S. Dalkeith, Earl of Lecke, Sir H. Trevor, Lord A. Darner, S. D. Lefroy, A. Trollope, Sir J. Dawson, R. P. Lennox, Lord G. G. Turner, C. Dickson, Col. Lennox, Lord H. G. Vance, J. Disraeli, B. Lennox, C. Vandeleur, CoL Drax, J. E. Leslie, C. I'. Vansittart, W. Du Cane, C. Leslie, W. Verner, Sir W. Duncambe, W. E. Liddell, H. G. Verner, E. W. Dunne, Col. Longfield, It. Vyse, Col. Du Pre, C. G. Lovaine, Lord Walcott, Admiral Edwards, Col. Lowther, Captain Walker, J. R. Egerton, E. C. Lyall, G. Walpole, S. H. Egerton, W. Lygon, 1 4 '. Waterhouse, S. Elphinstone, Sir J. Lytton, Sir E. B. Wattington, J. Fane, Col. Macaulay, K. Way, A. E. Farquhar, Sir M. Malcolm, .T. W. Welby, W. E. Fergusson, Sir J. Matins, K. Whiteside, J. Ferrand, W. Manners, Lord J. Whitmore, H. Filmer, Sir E. Maxwell, Col. Wyld, J. Fitzgerald, W. S. Miller, T. J. Wyndham, P. Fleming, T. W. Montagu, Lord R. Wynn, Sir W. Floyer .c. Montgomery, Sir G. Wynn, C. W. W. Forde, Col. Mordaunt, Sir C. Wynne, W. W. li, Forester, Gen. Morgan, Major i or ke, J. K. Fraser, Sir W. A. Mowbray, J. R. Galway, Viscount Mundy, W. Gard, It. S. Naas, Lord George, J. Noel, G. J. Goddard, A. L. North, Col. TELLERS. flay, Sir J. Seymour, Danby The Civil Service, H OME , „:ICE —A sub-inspectorship of factories has be come vacant by the death of Mr W. Hi c k s , su b-i nspector, Painswick, Glouces,:ershire. Pooß LAW BOARD—.g clerkship in the Poor Law Board Whitehall, has become vac,:nt by the death of Mr D. James, second-class clerk, junior division. THE AMMIRALTY—Mr T. Whit ; second-class draughts man, Devonport dockyard, has been appointed inspector of shipwrights, vice Potter, superannuated--Mr G. Richards has been appointed to ba leading man of joinTs, Devonport dockyard, vice May, promoted to be an inspector. CUSTOMS—Mr G. Bidgood has been appointeci an out officer, London. INLAND REVENUE—Stamps and Tax Branch—Mr W. A. Hore has been appointed a copying clerk in the licence office—Mr J. Coldbeck, surveyor of taxes at York, has re tired upon superrannuation—Mr J. H. Pollock, assistant surveyor, has been appointed to a surveyorship of the fifth class, and appointed to the Merthyr Tydvil district, vice Best—Mr E. D. Jonas, surveyor, fifth class, to the fourth class, and appointed to the Huntingdon district, vtcePearse —Mr C.W. L.eds, surveyor, fourth class, to the third class, and appointed to Norwich, vice Haworth—and Mr H. Haworth, surveyor of the third class, to the second class, and appointed to York, vice Coldbeck. The following trpns fere have been made at the request of the surveyors ;—lVr G. Best, from Merthyr Tyclvil to Hexham—Mr J. A. Cross, from Hexhsm to Aberystwith—Mr T. P. Pearse, from Huntingdon to Colchester—Mr W. Wilson, from Col chester to Burton-on-Trent—Mr J. Macpherson, from Bur ton-on-Trent to Glocester. IRELAND—Mr W. S. Kelly, has been appointed chief distributor of stamps for the King and Queen's counties, the aunty of Westmeath, and the town of Athlone, in the room of Mr J. Pim, deceased. THE EAST INDIES—Mr F. B. Peacock, of the Bengal Civil Service, has been confirmed in his appointment to officiate as registrar of the High Court of Judicature, Ben gal, in its appellate jurisdiction—Mr C. Robertson, joint magistrate and deputy collector at Bensres, has been appointed to officiate as assistant-secretary to the Government, N. W. Provinces—Mr A. C. Lyall, joint magistrate and deputy collector at Agra, to offi ciate as magistrate and collector of the Agra district — Mr C. A. Daniell, joint magistrate and deputy-collector of the 2d grade at Mot zuffernuggur, to be a joint magistrate and deputy collector of the Ist grade. Mr J. W. Quinton, officiating joint magistrate and deputy collector at Meerut, to be a joint magistrate and deputy collector of the 2d grade—and Mr E. S. Robertson, assistant magistrate and collector at Goruckpore, to officiate as a joint magistrate and deputy collector—Mr E, Montagu, assistant to the magistrate and collector of Boolundshuhur, has been trans ferred in the same capacity to Moozuffernuggur ; and Mr G. E. Ward, assistant to the magistrate and collector of Sahanunpore, in the same capacity to Baclundahuhur—Mr J. F. D. Inglis has been appointed to be commissioner of the Rohilcund division--Mr J. Power to ba civil and sessions judge of Moradabad—Mr H. S. Reid to be magis trate and collector of Aloradabad—Nlr F. B. Pearson to be j u dge of the Court of Strider Dewanny and Nie mut Ada wult—Mr M. Thornhill to be civil and sessions judge of Cawnpore, hut will officiate as civil and sessions judge of Meerut—Mr R. Spankie to be civil and sessions judge of Jout.pore—Mr C. R. Lindsay to be magistrate and collec tor of Saharunpore—M r R. C. Oldfield to be magistrate and collector of Furruckabad—and Mr 0. F. Mayne to be magistrate and collector of Agra, but will continue to officiate as magistrate and collector of Budaon. A verdict of wilful murder was returned against flyers, the Sheffield grinder, on Thursday, for killing his wife. The murder was a most cruel and deliberate one, and the jury could nave no other alternative than the decisive verdict. - f_Elr dignitt ' -____iii4,lll' 1 ~.,- gmL E 'l 14 4 ' 1 5' 341 / 1 : ,c,ss•— I , iil : - HER MAJESTY. WINDSOR CASTLE, Itltle 17. The Queen, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and Princess Helena, took a drive in an open carriage and four yesterday after noon, attended by Lord Charles Fitzroy, on horseback. His Royal Highness Prince Alfred, attended by Lieut. Haig, artived at the Castle last night from London. The Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster arrived at the Castle yesterday, and had the honour of dining with the Queen and Royal family. Her Majesty, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Princess Louis of Hesse, drove out this morning, attended by the Equerry in Waiting. Princess Helena, Princess Louise, Prince Alfred, and Prince Louis of Hesse rode, attended by the lion. lioratia Stopford. Their Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse, attended by Mademoiselle de Grancy and Captain von Westerweller, quitted the Castle this afternoon for Marlborough House, on a visit to their Royal Highnesses the Prirce and Princess of Wales. Prince Alfred, attended by Lieutenant Haig, also wen t to London. Their Royal Highnesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburg Streliiz and his Royal Highness the Prince Adolphus, attended by Baron Luhe, visited her Majesty, and remained to luncheon. Viscount Sydney, Lord Chamberlain, had an audience of the Queen to present three addresses from the Hou se °f Lords to her Majesty. The Prince and Princess of Wales. The Prince of Wales rode on horseback yesterday, accotn. panied by Prince Alfred and Prince Louis of Hesse, s od , attended by Lieutenant-Colon e l K e pp e l an d Lieutenant Haig. The Princess:of Wales took a carriage drive, accompanied by Princess Louis of Hesse. The Prince and Princess of 'Wales, the Prince and prin cess Louis of Hasse, and Prince Alfred honoured tu e Marchioness of Westminster with their company at herbal in the evening. The Prince and Princess of Wales at Grosvenor House, The Marchioness of Westminster gave a grit ° , ball lest night i n h onour o f t h e v i s i t of the i r R o yal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales t° Grosvenor House. Great preparations were made fo r the reception of the illustrious visitors, who were accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Princ e and Princess Louis of Hesse and Prince Alfred. Th e magnificent picture gallery and connecting suite of saloons which contain the valuable and choice CO"' lection of paintings by the ancient masters, univer sally known as " the Grosvenor Collection," We re thrown open on the occasion, and together with th e , staircase profu se ly a d orne d b y the choices t of flowers and rare plants. The elegant apartmen ts and valuable works of art have so often been described that it is needless to say more that that they were admired by all present. Th e gardens in the rear of the mansion had the Walk s arranged with variegated lamps, and from th e branches of the trees were suspen d e d hundreds el•, coloured lamps. The whole, as viewed from the windows, had a charming effect, and owing to th e fineness of the weather the lamps retained their lustre to the break of day. Their Royal Highnesse s the Prince and Princess of Wales, accompanied by Prince and Princess Louis of Hesse and Prin ce Alfred, arrived a few minutes before 11 o'clock, having in their suite the Marchioness of Carmar then, Lieut.-Colonel Leppel, Baron Westersveller , and the Baroness de Grancy. Their Royal High nesses the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Meck lenburg Srelitz, attended by Lady Caroline Cast and Baron Luhe, arrived shortly before the Prince and Princess of Wales. On the Prince and Princess of Wales alighting from the Royal carriage, they were cordially received by the Marquis and Mar chioness of Westminster, the Earl Grosvenor, Lord Richard and Lady Theodore Grosvenor being in the vestibule to receive the Royal person ages. Lord Grosvenor conducted the Princess of Wales to the saloon, the Prince of Wales giving his arm to the noble hostess. On the entrance of the illustrious company Coote and Tinney's band played the National Anthem. After a short interchange of recognitions among the leading visitors the Prince and Princess of Wales and the Royal party proceeded to the ballroom, where seats were set apart for the Royal party on a dais covered with crimson. Dancing commenced at a quarter past 11 o'clock, the ball being opened by a quadrille, the Prince of Wales dancing with Lady Constance Grosvenor, the Princess of Wales giving her hand to the Earl Grosvenor, In the same quadrille the Princess Louis of Hesse had for a partner Lord Richard Grosvenor, Prince Alfred the Marchioness of Carmarthen, and Priace Louis of Hesse the LeaY . Theodora Grosvenor. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary, attended by Lady Geraldine Sonia -. set and Captain Cust, did not arrive until after the dancing had commenced. Their Royal Highnesses were received at the entrance by th e Marchioness of Westminster. Their Serene High' nesses the Prince and Princess Edward of Saxe' Weimar, the Earl and Countess Russell, the Ear l and Countess of Clarendon, were among the early arrivals, bat it was nearly midnight when the es" riages discontinued to set down company. Th e royal supper table was laid out in the picture gal" lery, covers being laid for 18 persons. A superb display of gold plate was placed on the royal table and ballets. In the same noble apartment a table was laid out for supper for the general company. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge entertained the Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg - Strelitz and the Hereditary Grand Duke Adolphus and a select party at dinner, last evening, at Gloucester House , Baron Luhe and Baron von Plessen were in attendance ° II their royal highnesses, His Serene Highness the Prince Windischgratz and the Prince Victoria Windischgratz have taken their departure from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street. Baroness Brunnow's dancing party is fixed to take place on Wednesday, Tuly 13. The Earl and Countess of Derby wili give a grand banquet on the 27th inst., at their mansion in St. Jarno' s. square, to meet his Royal Highness the Duke of Cum blidge. The Earl and Countess of Malmeabury have sent out invitations for a grand dinner on the 22d inst., to meet their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary. Tne Cuuntess Stanhope has issued cards for an evening party on the 28th inst., at the family residence in Groovenor-place. The Rignt Hon. Chichester Fortescue, M.P., an d Frances Countess Waldegrave leave town to-day for Straw berry Hill. Tne Hon. Parker Jervis, Mrs. Jervis, an d t he Misses Jervis have arrived at the Queen's Hotel, Upper Norwood. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of Lady Constance "Woronzow Murray, sec on d d aug h ter o f the Countess of Dunmo re, and sister of the present Earl, with Lord Elphinstone, was celebrated on Thursday last at St. Andrew's Church, Dunmore, Falkirk, N.B. in the presence of a large fami:y party, including the Marquis and Mar.. chionese of AilesLury, Viscount and Viscountess de Vesely the Earl and Countess of Southesk, Lady AbercrombY, Atter the ceremony the wedding party proceeded to Dun more Park, to partake of a sumptuous wedding breakfast. Early in the afternoon the noble lord and his wife left for Drummond Castle, Perthshire, the seat of Lord and Lady Willoughby de Eresby. THE LATE LORD ADOIPHUS VANE TEMPEST, M,P,—The remains of Lord A.,;olphus Vane Tempest were removed on Thursday last from his house in Chester square to Wynyard Park, near Stockton-on-Tees, prepara tory to in 'ertrient in the ancestral vault of the Tempest family. The Earl Vane, the Duke of Marlborough, and other members of the family go to Wynyard for the funeral. THE DUKEDOM OF CHATELDERAULT.—It has been stated that the title of Due de Chatelherault has been confirmed by the Emperor of the French to the Duke of Hamilton. This is correct; but it is likely that the deci sion may be reversed, us Lord Abercorn, who represents the male line inheriting the title—as Lord Derby does the female line—has protested through our Embassy at Paris, and, as wo are informed, with strong probability of success. —The Owl. SHE ZOUAVE " DE TROP !"—The Z)trave, who is brave in the field (says the Times' Paris correspondent), and jovial in quarters, and who doubtless deserves well of his country, was so often before you (the other day in Paris) that he was looked upon as a bore. He was every where, aLd in every possible and impossible condition and attitude. People grew so satiated of his ftz, 1118 throat, his bushy beard, his jacket, and his role red breeches that they ca m e to rite t